Des Moines School Weighs Milk Diet For Pupils Experiment
Des Moines school board tests milk nutrition in Franklin school two grades 2 and 3 with 59 pupils 28 colored average daily attendance about 80 a pint of milk daily for three months. Milk kept in a refrigerating tank built by the manual training department and served after recess. Early results show improved conduct study and health, prompting expansion to more schools.
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Des Moines
Franklin School
Keosauqua Stone Industry and Ancient Horn Discovery
A new company forms to develop a Keosauqua stone bed said to rival Bedford stone in Indiana. Visitors view graves marked with Chequest quarry stone at Purdom cemetery where Elijah Purdom (born 1777) and descendants are buried. Nearby Cascade limestone lands hold a six foot horn fossil found in a shale creek bed on Edward Kehoe farm, with seven branched prongs suggesting a prehistoric herd.
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Keosauqua
Bedford
Indiana
Elijah Purdom
Purdom
Elisabeth
Iowa
Cascade
Dubuque
Edward Kehoe
Naturalization Denied for Aliens Failing to Respond
Lyon county authorities deny naturalization to six foreigners for not answering their country's call for service. The court orders permanent barring from citizenship for Evert Van Veld Huisen of Rock Rapids, Edward Fikse of Steen, Germa Bakker of Doon, Oscar O Kvellandt of In wood, Harry Stepakoff of Rock Rapids, and Mele Van Houten of Rock Rapids. The six were brought before the exemption board seeking exemption.
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Lyon County
Naturalization Court
Evert van Veld Huisen
Hollander
Rock Rapids
Edward Fikse
Steen
Minnesota
Germa Bakker
Doon
Oscar O. Kvellandt
Inwood
Harry Stepakoff
Mele van Houten
Quarantine Rules Set For Spanish Influenza Cases
The state board of health requires quarantine until full recovery or for three days after fever normal if no physician is available. Death ends quarantine with fumigation. recovered patients must change clothes and air the worn garments and home for eight hours, with the isolation house also aired for eight hours.
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State Board of Health
General Assembly
Centenarian George Gaby Rice Sees First Moving Picture
George Gaby Rice of Council Bluffs marked his 100th birthday by watching his first motion picture, Douglass Fairbanks’ "His Majesty the American." He reflects on photography’s evolution from early silhouettes to modern cinema and expresses interest in screen program viewing.
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George Gaby Rice
Council Biuils
Douglass Fairbanks
Dr. Rice Hs
Salvation Army Warns Public About Fundraising Imposters
Salvation Army officials seek a young man with a hat marked Christian Army seen in Des Moines raising funds for a benevolent cause. Reported fakirs cross the state claiming Red Cross ties. public urged to verify credentials before donating.
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Salvation Army
Christian Army
Des Moines
Red Cross
Col Snoozer the royal Scotch collie and a custody dispute
Miss Bessie Krebs owned Col Snoozer a collie given by Lieut. Lloyd H. Shafer on leaving for France. Shafer returned with a wife and sought the dog back. Bessie sued for ownership or loss of property and won in district court Judge Gulprie ordered Shafer to pay $100.
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Col Snoozer
Bessie Krebs
Camp Dodge
Lloyd H. Shafer
France
Bessie
Col. Snoozer
Lieut
Shafer
Griffin
District Court
Gulprie
Local court hears tale of courtship in high places
Bessie Krebs now Mrs J H Hazen after marrying months ago while the suit lingered. Hazen sat with his wife as she recounted incidents tied to a lieutenant's courtship.
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Col Snoozer
Bessie Krebs
J. H. Hazen
Clerks Petition For Earlier Saturday Night Releases
Over 200 Creston clerks petition store managers for reduced Saturday night shifts. They want releases at 10 pm Wilson time and 9 pm God’S time, arguing for earlier closing to end late hours.
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Creston
Wilson
Aviation men move from Camp Dodge to Fort Sheridan
Fourth division air service personnel stationed at Camp Dodge have departed for Fort Sheridan near Chicago. The exodus occurred overnight with two hours notice, catching Des Moines residents by surprise as industrial strikes spread.
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Camp Dodge
Fort Sheridan
Chicago
Des Moines
Bloomfield suits arise from wartime actions and Libery Drive heat
Tension surrounding Bloomfield resurfaces as Dickson brothers face a $50,000 suit by several prominent locals over alleged humiliations during liberty loan drives. The two bachelor brothers reportedly refused to participate. Now nine Jestling club women of the Red Cross file a $45,000 suit against W. C. Dickson alleging he called them a thieving bunch.
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Bloomfield
Dickson Brothers
Bachelor Brothers
The
Red Cross
W. C. Dickson
Omaha mob violence prompts soldier march from Camp Dodge
Maj Carlsted leads 290 soldiers from Camp Dodge to Omaha amid reports of mob violence. Government Hospital No 26 at Fort Des Moines will close mid month after treating about 10 000 wounded. About 500 patients remain to be sent to Fort Sheridan for care. The article notes eight legless and eleven double amputees and features Sioux John Rambo with a projected arm in a steel cage. Reverend H O Pratt resigns at 81 after six years as chaplain.
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Iowa
A. E .Kepford
Board of Control
Kepford
Fort Dodge
Scott County Tuberculosis Hospital
Davenport
Omaha
Camp Dodge
Maj
Carlsted
Fort Des Moines
Fort Sheridan
John Rambo
John
Iowa Clergy and Military Veteran Guided by Service record
A veteran who served three terms and in the rebel lion war then served in Congress became a Methodist minister. He led notable charges in the Upper Iowa conference before retirement. The Minnesota Soldiers Home in Minneapolis saw chaplains transition, and warnings urged Iowa youths to avoid flying kites near high tension lines to prevent electric shocks.
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Congress
Methodist Church
Upper
Iowa
Soldiers Home
Clemint
Minneapolis
Pratysuecessor
Clengeot
Minnesota
Evangelical Association Holds 27th Quadrennial Session
The Evangelical Association converges in Cedar Falls for its 27th quadrennial session the first such meeting west of the Mississippi. A proposed merger with the United Evangelical church awaits Cedar Falls approval after ratification by York Pennsylvania's 1918 conference.
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General Conference of the
Evangelical Association
America
Cedar Falls
Mississippi
United Evangelical Church
General Conference
York
Pennsylvania
Ceder Falls
Little church inspires world famous song and ceremonies
Automobile parties travel hundreds of miles to visit the church that inspired the late Dr. Pitts song. Marriage rites occur inside its walls with couples journeying long distances. Children are christened within its sacred precincts as visitors register—nearly 3,000 by Sept 1, and total summer attendance estimated at 15,000 to 20,000.
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Dr. Pitts
Hook
Clara Kimball Young Stars in The Better Wife at Fox Theatre
Clara Kimball Young returns to the Fox Theatre with her company presenting The Better Wife, a Lenore Coffee novel adaptation. The feature follows Charmian at an English country estate where she meets Lady Beverly Sir Richard and Little Dick, with romance complicated by tragedy and injury amid a bustling bill for city patrons.
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Clara Kimball Young
FOX Theatre
Lenore Coffee
Miss Young
Chairman Page
Charmian
Lady Beverly
Sir Richard
Little Dick
Comte de Chevral
Comte
Love and Dilemma on the Riviera
The story follows a heroine who travels from England to the Riviera to see her father and discovers an costly operation needed to save Little Dick. Sir Richard faces financial strain, Charmian presses for funding, and he falls for Charmian while the truth about the first Lady Beverly tests loyalties and marriage choices.
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England
Riviera
Little Dick
Sir Richard
Charmian
Beverly
Miss Young
I Stepped in Your Steps All the Way
A father guides his son through a stormy street and the boy imitates every move. The poem laments how adults absorb harmful voices and urges stepping into virtue and courage. It honors those who resist greed and fear and keep faith, love, and labor. The closing line invokes Roy Temple House.
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ROY Temple House
The Standard of Wealth Quote by H L Mencken
A witty remark attributed to H L Mencken from the New York Mail states that a man is wealthy if he earns $100 more than his wife's sister's husband, illustrating a satirical measure of riches.
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H. L. Mencken
The
New York Mail
France Sees Infants Rise as Paris Reconsiders Population
Paris reports a notable rise in births this month after a long decline. 1918 figures show 43 480 births in the Seine district versus 73 599 in 1911. Infant mortality stands at 40 percent, linked to wet nurse scarcity and bottle milk shortages amid Normandy cheese production. Maternity hospitals in Paris report rising births with larger, healthier babies and a new periodical Marriage launches a campaign on repopulating France.
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Paris
France
Seine
Normandy
Some Grownups Have Some Idea
A child recounts Miriam visiting a neighbor to see a newborn. On return she quips she prefers babies after ward, humorously implying a delayed or skeptical view of infancy and freshness.
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Miriam
Refuge for the Shabby Eskimo Suit Fashion Comment
A brief exchange features an Eskimo in the same suit year round. A man with a shiny coat sleeve muses about moving north where such attire is fashionable, reflecting social contrasts in a compact seaside-page vignette.
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Tye
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